President Reagan : the role of a lifetime / Lou Cannon.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Public Affairs, 2000.Edition: 1st Public Affairs edDescription: xvii, 883 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1891620916 (pbk.)
  • 9781891620911 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • E 877 .C35 2000
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Contents:
Back to the future -- A Reagan portrait -- The acting politician -- The acting president -- Offstage influences -- Heroic dreams -- Halcyon days -- Kidding on the square -- Hail to the Chief -- Passive President -- The loner -- Staying the course -- Focus of evil -- Freedom fighters -- Lost in Lebanon -- An actor abroad -- Morning again in America -- Turning point -- Darkness at noon -- Struggles at twilight -- The new era -- Visions and legacies.
Review: "Updated with recent assessments from many quarters, including the comments of former U.S. and Soviet diplomats, Nancy Reagan, and former independent counsel Lawrence Walsh, this masterwork probes the achievements and failures of the Reagan presidency with critical detachment. It examines the reasons for his political success, explains his economic policies, and exposes the roots of the Iran-contra scandal. Above all, President Reagan is an incisive portrait of one of America's most important presidents."--BOOK JACKET.
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Originally published: New York : Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1991. With new introd.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [820]-834) and index.

Back to the future -- A Reagan portrait -- The acting politician -- The acting president -- Offstage influences -- Heroic dreams -- Halcyon days -- Kidding on the square -- Hail to the Chief -- Passive President -- The loner -- Staying the course -- Focus of evil -- Freedom fighters -- Lost in Lebanon -- An actor abroad -- Morning again in America -- Turning point -- Darkness at noon -- Struggles at twilight -- The new era -- Visions and legacies.

"Updated with recent assessments from many quarters, including the comments of former U.S. and Soviet diplomats, Nancy Reagan, and former independent counsel Lawrence Walsh, this masterwork probes the achievements and failures of the Reagan presidency with critical detachment. It examines the reasons for his political success, explains his economic policies, and exposes the roots of the Iran-contra scandal. Above all, President Reagan is an incisive portrait of one of America's most important presidents."--BOOK JACKET.

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